The Atmore plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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7.86 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1940. The next wettest, 5.50 inches, fell in 2006.
Atmore’s center stands about 230 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 180 ft to 330 ft, a difference of 150 ft: gently rolling country.
The section below crosses 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sand, clay. Age: Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 5 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
A raindrop that lands in Atmore reaches Pensacola Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Wet Weather Creek, Sizemore Creek, Big Escambia Creek, the Escambia and the Dead: about 70 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Atmore; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Atmore has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 39° in January. About 64 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Atmore normally reaches 70° and falls to 47°. The record high is 84°, in 1985; the record low 24°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 2.15 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1940 at Atmore, 4 miles north-northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
